Blog o cestovaní nielen po Japonsku / Travel blog

21. March 2014

Deň 2 / Day 2

EN:My second day in Tokyo was influenced by winds, which were unexpectedly strong. Since the weather prediction wasn’t positive at all, I didn’t have any outdoor plans, as I didn’t want to get soaked on my second day in Japan and consequently to catch a cold or another plague. Therefore I visited Tokyo Edo Museum (Edo is the former name of Tokyo). I managed to screw up my route on my way there, as I didn’t have my Japanese SIM Data card in that time and my use of GPS and Google Maps was really limited. But eventually I go there.

The main building of the museum is massive, one of the entries is on the picture above, so you can easily imagine its size. The entry to the museum was 600 yen (approx. 4.30 eur), so not expensive at all, considering the prices in Slovakia (Spis Castle – entry fee is 5 eur per person, which is totally out of proportion). The museum is largely interactive, the interior is really large and it depicts Tokyo in its various past periods. Most of the stuff was written in Japanese, but there were short annotations in English as well. Really a nice museum to visit on a rainy day.

EN: After the museum visit I had to go back home to have some food and I had a plan to visit Institute for Nature Study, which was unfortunately closed due to some refurbishments. So I had a nice, long walk from Koyamadai to Meguro, took some pictures of the surrounding streets and the last photo was taken in a large shopping street situated just next to the Musashi-Koyama station.

EN:The shopping street I mentioned was full of little shops, which sell pretty much anything you dream of. Everything from fresh fruit and vegetables, electronics and clothes – funnily enough, most of the stuff was even cheaper than in Slovakia. Which is strange, considering the average monthly salary in Japan is 1500 eur per month while the monthly wage of average Slovakian is around 800 eur. The food in local restaurants (Udon, Ramen and Sushi) could be purchased for 400-600 yen, which is great, considering the quality of the food itself.